From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 13:12:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mbunix.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9594E37B570 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 13:12:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06064 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:12:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailsrv2.mitre.org (mailsrv2.mitre.org [129.83.221.17]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18966 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:09:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mitre.org ([128.29.145.140]) by mailsrv2.mitre.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.1) with ESMTP id FZEIS200.GJ4; Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:12:02 -0400 Message-ID: <399AF625.5A29C89A@mitre.org> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:14:29 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-20000509M (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lyle jorgensen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: have i got it right References: <20000816151710.2223.qmail@web613.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lyle jorgensen wrote: > > I am enrolled at UMSL (University of Missouri, St Louis) in a basic > programmers class. We will be using the C language on a UNIX server. I > am a little farmiliar with "C" but know nothing about UNIX. I desire > to load freebsd on my computer to learn "everything you always wanted > to know about UNIX but were to dumb to ask" in one week. > > Tell me if I understand this thing correctly, please. > > I have downloaded and I believe understand how to build the 2 > floppies. I have downloaded the "BIN" files to my c drive. I am > running win98 on a DFI AT motherboard with a AMDK6 450 processor, with > two IDE hard drives and 32M memory. I plan to make my secondary hard > drive, a 450M IDE, my freebsd drive. > > Here is my plan of attack: > > First make the two floppies. Turn off my machine and reconfigure so > that the 450 drive is master and my normal drive slave. boot with the > first floppie in the A drive. steer the program to my normal drive > where the BIN files are downloaded. > > Will this work? Can freebsd read DOS drives? Is there a whole bunch of > stuff I still don't properly understand? How can I be sure that I > won't wipe out my normal C drive? Check out the handbook on http://www.freebsd.org, it will answer a lot of the questions you have and are going to have. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message